“Constant labour is the law of art as well as the law of life, for art is the creative activity of the mind. And so great artists, true poets, do not wait for either commissions or clients; they create today, tomorrow, ceaselessly.”
In this classic work, the protagonist, Bette, a shrewd and ambitious woman, manipulates and schemes her way into the upper class, revealing the corrupting influence of wealth and power on human nature. more
“I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
“Art is a constellation of emotions, spread across the sky of perception.”
“Whenever I paint the truth, no matter how strange, people see themselves in it.”